Pride and Prejudice?

Question

I am doing a book report on Pride and Prejudice and I need a little help on the following items:
a) the theme of the story
b) how you try to explain and relate Pride and Prejudice with the characteristics of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy
c) is it Mr Darcy's Pride or Prejudice or Elizabeth's Pride or Prejudice?
d) How does this idea/theme apply to our daily lives?
e) What have you learnt from this book?

I have read the book and the movie but please help!!!!! Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

Answer 1

1. There are many themes- the art of courtship and marriage, the role of wealth and status, the morals of the era, social etiquette. the observation of human nature
2. They both have to undergo a journey and evolve as human beings before they can overcome their pride and prejudices and find each other.
3. Darcy is proud of his postion, his estate and his pride prevented him from revealing his and his sister's vulnerability to scandal via the George Wickham scandal. He also shows some prejudice against those of a lower status that he feels beneath him.
Elizabeth's self pride is injured when Darcy deems her as merely "tolerable". Everything he says or does from that point she is prejudiced against him and will only see him in a bad light
4. In our daily lives we encounter many people from different socio-economic levels and rightly or wrongly we may judge them without getting to know them first and thus be totally misguided about a person's true character and value as a human being.
5. You have to answer this for yourself as I feel that the book speaks to each person in a different way. What have you learnt?

Answer 2

If only you were doing Sense and Sensibility:

The book suggests that those of us with wit enough to analyze the faults in others have the hope that with compassion and self-reflection will overcome our own faults.

Elizabeth is prejudice, Mr. Darcy is pride. Mr. Darcy is to proud to sink in position and love Elizabeth. Elizabeth is too prejudiced about her own perception of Mr. Darcy's pride to judge him fairly. And in the same sense, Mr. Darcy is also prejudiced against Elizabeth's family, and Elizabeth is too proud to insult her intelligence and give Mr. Darcy a shot.

It is probably Elizabeth's Pride and Prejudice. Her's is more analyzed than Mr. Darcy's. It is her wit and her perceptions that give the book it's life.

We can apply the concept of prejudice to our lives by examining ourselves and seeking to learn from people we want to think of as beneath us.

We are so wrapped up in our belief in the superiority of our perceptions that we don't realize that this attitude alone prevents us from clearly seeing reality.

Answer 3

In the novel Mr. Darcy represent Pride and Elizabeth represent Prejudice..Darcy has always been proud on his wealth because he belongs to upper strata of a society..he doesn't treat well with the people of middle class...he is arrogant and proud...whereas Elizabeth belongs to middle class but is an independent girl..she has the courage to fight with anyone...and she always think herself to be correct on her part...thats why she represents the Prejudiced part of the novel...actually its a romantic novel and marriage could be one of the themes of the novel...the idea applies to our daily lives in many sense..because during post colonial times parents used to be worried about finding a proper and wealthy match for their daughters and now also its happening...and today also its easy to find people like Darcy and Elizabeth...i hope this information would definitely help you to some extent...

Answer 4

Everyone's said lots of smart things, so I just wanted to add these tid-bits.

a) Apparently Jane Austen's first choice of title was 'First Impressions', but there was already a novel of that name, so she picked 'Pride and Prejudice' instead. I think this says a lot about the theme of the story, about learning about others and yourself.
b) Just to add to what everyone said. Darcy is proud of his status, but also prejudiced towards Lizzie and her family. Lizzie is proud of her sister and prejudiced against Darcy and his coterie. It's not as clear cut as you might think, there are interesting parallels and crossovers.

Answer 5

go to pinkmokey.com

click the right banana icon on EnterPinkMonkey.com

then type in the title

everything u need is there!

Answer 6

http://www.sparknotes.com This website will tell you all you need to know. I used when I read P&P

Answer 7

Hmmm....well, aparently not...